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Ana Luiza Rodrigues, Caio Falcão and R. Christopher Williams
Crosslinking agents, notably sulfur, are used in asphalt binder modification to facilitate chemical bonding between polymer chains and the asphalt binder. Despite some prior research indicating the benefits of sulfur crosslinking in enhancing polymer-mod...
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Jason S. Drebber, Christopher T. Halsted, Lee B. Corbett, Paul R. Bierman and Marc W. Caffee
Constraining the timing and rate of Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) retreat through the northeastern United States is important for understanding the co-evolution of complex climatic and glaciologic events that characterized the end of the Pleistocene epoch. ...
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Christopher R. Correia and Mark Roseland
The sheer size, growth, and complexity of cities worldwide are creating an ever-increasing burden of negative externalities on society and the environment. This systematic review aims to illuminate the broad range of negative urban development externalit...
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Christopher R. Myers and Chinmayee V. Subban
The increase in partial pressure of CO2 in the oceans directly affects the productivity and survival of coastal industries and ecosystems. For marine aquaculture, the decreased alkalinity of seawater results in reduced availability of carbonates for mari...
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Tarandeep S. Kalra, Steve E. Suttles, Christopher R. Sherwood, John C. Warner, Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta and Gibson R. Leavitt
The shoaling transformation from generally linear deep-water waves to asymmetric shallow-water waves modifies wave shapes and causes near-bed orbital velocities to become asymmetrical, contributing to net sediment transport. In this work, we used two met...
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Felista W. Mwangi, Shedrach B. Pewan, John R. Otto, Oyelola A. Adegboye, Edward Charmley, Christopher P. Gardiner, Bunmi S. Malau-Aduli, Robert T. Kinobe and Aduli E. O. Malau-Aduli
This study explored the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4), stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD), and fatty acid synthase (FASN) genes that may influence the carcass traits of tropical crossbred beef ...
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Timothy J. Hunter, Jermiah J. Joseph, Udunna Anazodo, Sanjay R. Kharche, Christopher W. McIntyre and Daniel Goldman
Background: Atrial fibrillation is a prevalent cardiac arrhythmia and may reduce cerebral blood perfusion augmenting the risk of dementia. We hypothesize that geometric variations in the cerebral arterial structure called the Circle of Willis (CoW) play ...
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Tewodros R. Godebo, Marc A. Jeuland, Christopher J. Paul, Dagnachew L. Belachew and Peter G. McCornick
This work aims to assess water quality for irrigated agriculture, alongside perceptions and adaptations of farmers to climate change in the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER). Climate change is expected to cause a rise in temperature and variability in rainfall i...
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Michael J. Allen, Thomas R. Allen, Christopher Davis and George McLeod
This study evaluates the spatial-temporal patterns in Virginia tornadoes using the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center?s Severe Weather GIS (SVRGIS) database. In addition to descriptive statistics, the analysis employs Kernel Density Estimat...
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Mitzy L. Schaney, James S. Kite, Christopher R. Schaney and James A. Thompson
Peatlands in Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge hold a pedomemory of Pleistocene and Holocene climatic fluctuations in the central Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. A field investigation profiling 88 organic soil profiles, coupled w...
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